Obviously, conscious of the debate started in the previous issue of Nuclear Future, the Royal Society -UK's national academy of science - has launched a new short guide to the science of climate change. The guide has been written to summarise the evidence and to clarify the levels of confidence associated with the current scientific understanding of climate change. It makes clear what is well-known and established about the climate system, what is widely agreed but with some debate about details, and what is still not well understood. Climate change: a summary of the science describes how and why the earth is currently warming, and explains the wide-range of independent measurements and observations which underpin this understanding.
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